How does FoodConnect Adelaide work?
Our customers (subscribers) will pay an up-front subscription to Food Connect for a minimum of 4 weeks. We will offer a choice of produce boxes eg; family size, single size, mixed fruit and vege or fruit or vege only which will be delivered weekly. This enables us to offer farmers a stable and fair price for their produce and to minimize waste.
Produce will be packed into boxes and distributed to subscribers via City Cousins. City Cousins are people or businesses who offer their home/business as a place where our local subscribers can collect their food from. This means that we don’t waste valuable fuel delivering to each individual home and also helps city people to connect again with each other and their food.
Will my produce always be organic?
Where we find organic farmers who wish to supply us, it will be organic but we can’t guarantee all produce will be organic. Organic and smaller scale farmers utilising sustainable production methods are encouraged to produce for the Food Connect system. Food Connect believes that the best way to achieve sustainable farming systems is to firstly encourage local food consumption; preserving the local agricultural landscape, keeping farmers in the community, and energy conservation are key values. Providing organic or chemical free produce is also an important goal. Food Connect Brisbane has shown that after time, farmers who have been providing produce to Food Connect are encouraged and supported to change to more organic or chemical free farming practices
